The Commercial Ten Pins League got under way on Monday evening when eight fixtures were run off. Play on the whole was mediocre as none of the teams possessed a well balanced line-up.
The best performance was made jointly by Clark of the Chemicals and Bourne of the Automobiles as they singled 216 and 215 respectively Bourne registered the highest triple of 588 while both the Chemicals and Automobiles garnered the best team triple of 909. The highest team triple, however, was chalked up by the Insurance people, with 2,560 In the Hardwood Section the Insurance people and Auditors won all their three games from Automobiles and Secretaries in respective order The Brokers took two from Texaco while the First Battalion U.S. Marines beat the Banks by a similar margin.
In the Softwood Section clear-cut victories were scored by Second Battalion U.S. Marines over the Telephones and the Exporters over Yee Tsoong. Headquarters, U.S. Marines, beat Post-Mercury, 2-1, and Chemicals defeated Accountants, 2
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